Neuron Explorer

Qwen3-0.6B

colon or comma before a quote

A neuron in layer 26 of Qwen3-0.6B. Its strongest snippets are very consistent: they mostly peak on the same token. It is featured, so it has steering outputs.

What this neuron does

This neuron fires on the colon or comma at the end of a line that introduces a quotation, such as 'declared:' or 'said:' followed by a new line. Turning it up made the model produce long strings of quotation marks, which fits what it was spotting.

Written by Claude from this neuron's activations and steering outputs. Confidence: high. Think it is wrong? Flag it (opens a prefilled issue on GitHub).

Fires most on

The text windows where this neuron's activation was highest. Amber marks positive activation; the outlined token is the peak. Hover a token for its strength.

  1. #1 peak

    8 to 21 years of age will have the chance to vote.”⏎In 1832, Noah Webster wrote in his History of the United States:⏎“When you become

  2. #2 peak

    1.26.)⏎This is comparable to Eusebius who in 325 AD wrote in Ecclesiastical History 3.27:⏎"These men, moreover, thought that it was necessary to

  3. #3 peak

    that the crustal structure doesn't follow the surface physiography,"⏎says George Zandt, a geophysicist with the University of Arizona in Tucson,⏎and lead author of the study, which appears in today's Nature.⏎"Normally

  4. #4 peak

    AIDS Programme Manager at Prague's National Institute of Public Health, says awareness is relatively high in the Czech Republic. However, he believes people are also becoming complacent:⏎"The awareness does exist, but HIV infection is underestimated by Czech citizens. It's

  5. #5 peak

    is in the left hand.⏎The next time you do the trick, use different numbers like 13 or 19.⏎- Give your friend these instructions:⏎- Think

  6. #6 peak

    -1⏎(O janamejaya) Thus, seeing the invincible wolves increasing, all the women⏎and men of vraja as a group, said:⏎sthAne neha na nah kAryaM vrajAmo

Steering

Push this neuron up or down while the model writes, and watch what changes. The outputs were generated ahead of time, so nothing runs in your browser.

turned down a lot
Prompt

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Most negative on

Where the activation went furthest below zero. Blue marks negative activation. Many neurons mean something different in each direction.

  1. #1 peak

    words, it is a part of a general number that should be considered divided by 100 units. The symbol with which this fraction is represented is ” % “.⏎In this sense , saying 25

  2. #2 peak

    and is regarded as the founding pope of the Catholic church. Instrumental in the spread of early Christianity, Peter was said to have walked on water, witnessed the “Transfiguration of Jesus” and denied Jesus (for which he repented and

  3. #3 peak

    nd Para Bn's detachment were unaccounted for.⏎The mission was extremely hazardous for the members of the Simcol detachments, particularly following Hitler's infamous ‘Commando Order’ issued on 18 October 1942,

  4. #4 peak

    heart all the days of your life. And you are to make them known to your children and to your children’s children – the day you stood before the L-ord, your G-d, at Sinai” (Deuteronomy 4:

Connections

Show on map

Which neurons in earlier layers feed this one, and which later ones it feeds. Amber links excite, blue links suppress; longer bars are stronger.

Fed by earlier layers

  1. L21:1381 suppresses
  2. L24:74 suppresses
  3. L19:1946 suppresses
  4. L20:1462 excites
  5. L20:2332 excites
  6. L21:679 excites
  7. L22:418 suppresses
  8. L22:1668 excites
  9. L19:1409 excites
  10. L21:715 excites
  11. L21:450 suppresses
  12. L23:293 suppresses
  13. L24:618 suppresses
  14. L22:65 suppresses
  15. L20:563 excites
  16. L22:768 suppresses
  17. L22:1040 excites
  18. L21:1389 excites
  19. L20:673 excites
  20. L19:124 suppresses
  21. L20:59 suppresses
  22. L23:923 suppresses
  23. L13:44 suppresses inside web addresses and citations
  24. L24:1505 excites

Feeds later layers

  1. L27:1793 strongly excites
  2. L27:661 strongly suppresses
  3. L27:2915 excites
  4. L27:1277 excites
  5. L27:1294 excites
  6. L27:315 suppresses
  7. L27:1373 weakly excites
  8. L27:1197 weakly suppresses
  9. L27:531 weakly excites
  10. L27:348 weakly excites
  11. L27:2842 weakly suppresses
  12. L27:171 weakly suppresses
  13. L27:277 weakly excites
  14. L27:467 weakly excites
  15. L27:605 weakly suppresses
  16. L27:626 weakly excites
  17. L27:1584 weakly suppresses
  18. L27:2125 weakly suppresses
  19. L27:404 weakly excites
  20. L27:1474 weakly excites
  21. L27:2351 weakly suppresses
  22. L27:926 weakly suppresses
  23. L27:444 weakly excites
  24. L27:2302 weakly excites

Activation histogram

How often this neuron fires at each strength. Almost always it does close to nothing (the tall bars in the middle); the snippets above are the rare moments it fired hard, amber for positive and blue for negative.

1 values between -20.25 and -19.251 values between -16.25 and -15.251 values between -15.25 and -14.251 values between -14.25 and -13.251 values between -13.25 and -12.251 values between -12.25 and -11.251 values between -11.25 and -10.254 values between -10.25 and -9.256 values between -9.25 and -8.262 values between -8.26 and -7.264 values between -7.26 and -6.2615 values between -6.26 and -5.267 values between -5.26 and -4.2617 values between -4.26 and -3.2628 values between -3.26 and -2.2669 values between -2.26 and -1.26452 values between -1.26 and -0.263100 values between -0.26 and 0.74102 values between 0.74 and 1.7430 values between 1.74 and 2.7420 values between 2.74 and 3.745 values between 3.74 and 4.746 values between 4.74 and 5.7411 values between 5.74 and 6.747 values between 6.74 and 7.744 values between 7.74 and 8.742 values between 8.74 and 9.742 values between 9.74 and 10.743 values between 10.74 and 11.742 values between 12.74 and 13.741 values between 14.74 and 15.741 values between 15.74 and 16.741 values between 18.74 and 19.73offnegativepositiveoften

Logit lens

The words this neuron nudges the model toward (amber) or away from (blue) when it fires. A hint, not a label: many neurons work through later layers instead.

Promotes

  1. "
  2. '
  3. "?
  4. ,"
  5. "?⏎⏎
  6. ,'"
  7. "</
  8. "*
  9. ”?
  10. *"

Suppresses

  1. '
  2. `
  3. ‘
  4. «
  5. "
  6. \'
  7. \"
  8. “
  9. ``
  10. Enter